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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: caching the request queue was Re: interims VFS queue
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:49:16 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 06:58:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:09:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 1: What happened with Andi's "dio: optimize cache misses in the
> >    submission path"?  (Against which I have checkpatch fixes and
> >    #include linux/prefetch.h, btw)
> 
> It has mostly been merged, including all whitespace fixes and some
> folding.  What is missing is the last two patchees because I don't
> want to put the request_queue caching in until the remaining
> lifetime issues for the request queue are sorted out, and the last
> patch (which would need prefetch.h) depends on it.

I asked Jens in person and he seemed ok with with the queue 
caching. Jens can you ack?


-Andi